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Meanings of reciprocating in English

Reciprocatory.

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Examples for "reciprocatory"
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The reciprocatory payment being successfully carried through, it now remains for the bridegroom's relatives to give the farewell feast and carry off the bride.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo / Memoirs of the National Academy of Sci...
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He therefore doubles up this marvelous fact of a mother's love, and creates in his imagination a reciprocatory agency co-respondent to this mother's love.
The Golden Censer / Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the f...
Usage of reciprocating in English
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Parzival: I refuse to answer any more questions until you start reciprocating.
Ready Player One
2
The new reciprocating device, and the self-feeding storage batteries are fully covered.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
3
Heartily reciprocating his good wishes, Randal attended Captain Bennydeck to the door.
The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story
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During this speech Cowperwood's brain had been reciprocating like a well-oiled machine.
The Titan
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There's virtually no record of Madiba reciprocating the kind words of his counterpart.
The South African
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Then there was a high pressure pump and a reciprocating low pressure pump.
The fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla
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For years engineers have concentrated energies on the steam-engine of the reciprocating type.
Industrial Progress and Human Economics
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They ran smoothly and noiselessly on account of the absence of reciprocating parts.
The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
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Mr. William Bradberry, of Darrtown, O., has invented an improvement in reciprocating churns.
Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 / A Weekl...
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Thee the reciprocating sea, with his tempestuous waves, bore back again to war.
The Works of Horace
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Still Violet missed the power of fully reciprocating her sister's confidence.
Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife
12
Smith's engine was a compound turbine, reciprocating engines having proved extravagant in fuel.
Round the World in Seven Days
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I'm hoping to talk you into reciprocating and coming out to L.A. sometime soon.
Nano
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The Olympic and Titanic engines were a combination of the turbine and reciprocating types.
Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
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Shenyang Yuanda is the leading reciprocating compressor manufacturer in China.
Reuters
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Gabriel was made of stone, metaphorically speaking, and was incapable of reciprocating her feelings.
Halo
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